Kateryna Ivonina

Kateryna Ivonina is Ukrainian artist and she lives in the USA from the end of 2021
"In my artistic practice, I bring to life "eternal" questions, which are contextualised in current cultural circumstances and through the framework of my personal experience. I am interested in the form, figure and act of self-identification, self-consciousness of both the entire human specie and the individual thinking being.
Identity is a fundamentally questionable entity, which from a correlationist, Cartesian perspective looks like an unsolvable puzzle. Therefore, as an artist, I turn to the logic of the phenomenologist and seek to discover the features of human identity in the reflection of the optics through which we look at the world of things and phenomena. The anthropomorphisation of non-human forms of life, the narrativisation of what we see, is always an experience of distortion, a sign of blind anthropocentrism. But by deconstructing this experience, we can find an answer to the question of who we are through our intentions, projections, memories and delusions.
It is optics that is particularly important to me as an artist. I create my works at the level of the gaze, of perception - tangible and intangible all at once, always somewhere in...

1995 — 2001 National University of Building and Architecture, Kharkiv, UA
1992 — 1995 Higher Professional School No. 20, Kharkiv, UA

Personal
2019 “Waiting for Summer” Kharkiv, UA
2018 “Flash of Color” Kharkiv, UA
2018 “Simple Things” Kharkiv, UA
2017 “About Everything”, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 “Life as Inspiration, Inspiration as life”, Kharkiv, UA
Group
2024
2024"Lokal Artist Spring Exhibition" P Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
2023 "Fleurs En Juillet" Buckhead Art&Company, Atlanta, USA
2023 "The Ukrainian Art Collection" Buckhead Art&Company, Atlanta, USA
2022-2023 charity exhibitions, Atlanta, USA
2022-2023 members exhibitions of Suwanee Arts Center, Atlanta, USA
2021 “Abstract” Kharkiv, UA
2021 "Unis Vers Art 2021" Izborg, Russia
2020 "Unis Vers Art 2020" Sankt Petersburg, Russia
2020 "Inspired by color" Palladium Gallery, Kharkov, Ukaraine
2020 "Highlights" Boomer gallery, London
2020 “Love in The Air” Kreative Raum Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2019 “Vernissage” Kreative Raum Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2019 “Colors of The World. Slovakia” Kyiv, UA
2019 “A Diversity of Dreams” Kyiv, UA
2019 “Ukraine” Kropyvnytskiy, UA
2019 “ART-ACT 2019” Chernivtsi, UA
2019 “Vernissage. Arte” Portorož, Slovenia
2019 “Vernissage. Arte” Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 “Black & White” Kharkiv, UA
2018 “Still Life” Kharkiv, UA
2018 “A Gift To Special Chi...